Sometimes, we have worked hard enough, but we still can't see the signs of life change. Our hearts are like falling into a maze, confused and anxious. Einstein once said that problems at this level are difficult to solve by thinking at this level. If this level of thinking fails, how can we find a way out? one In real life, we often fall into a strange circle of unsolvable life. You are very poor, and then tighten your clothes and food, but you still can't make ends meet; You are fat, and then go on a diet, but you still have a big belly; You are very busy, and then work overtime every day. As a result, the work effect is still not high. You will be very helpless to find that the changes you try to make do not get the expected results. This is like a donkey grinding. Because it is blindfolded, it keeps pulling the grinding circle by circle. It feels that it has been moving forward, making progress and growing, but in fact, it has been spinning in place. Let's do a simple experiment. Cast a beam of light on the wall to form a bright area. Then, put your hand in front of the light source, and the shadow of your palm will appear on the bright wall. At this time, if you want to change the shape of the shadow on the wall, can you make any changes to the shadow directly on the plane of the wall? Obviously, you can't do it. We can only go back to you in the three-dimensional world and change the posture of your palm, so as to really change the shape of the shadow. The shadow on the wall is in a two-dimensional plane, while in reality, your hand is in a three-dimensional world. The shadow is only the projection of the three-dimensional hand on the two-dimensional plane. If you want to change the image of the two-dimensional plane, you have to rise to a higher level and reach the three-dimensional to make the change. This is actually a process of upgrading and solving problems. You are very poor, ask yourself to buy less clothes and spend less. If you can walk, you will never take the car. If you have friends, you will never take the initiative to pay the bill. You will be complacent that you have saved a few yuan for the car. You will feel that you can really live, and you will feel smart because you are greedy for other people's cheap. However, you never realize that your current life is filled with too many trivial things, and your heart is occupied by all kinds of trivial calculations. On the contrary, you have less and less time to control, and your friends are gradually alienated. In fact, your poverty is a kind of mental poverty. The thinking bandwidth is too narrow and self-control is scarce. What can really make you rich is to get rid of your "poor mentality" and know how to plan for life in the long run. You are very fat and ask yourself to go on a painful diet every day, but you always inadvertently choose to eat in a hot pot shop one day after some entanglement and hesitation. As a result, when you get home, you weigh yourself and go back. At this time, you will swear to yourself that you must shut up next time. However, you never realize that dieting to lose weight will only make your subconscious reduce your metabolic rate, which will reduce your consumption, but is not conducive to fat loss. What can really help you lose weight is not to control your mouth, but to accelerate your metabolic rate with the help of the regularity of diet and exercise. You are very busy. You deal with all kinds of meetings and reports every day. In order to catch up with the progress, you work overtime. However, after working overtime for several consecutive days, you start to fall into a state that needs rest and adjustment. At this time, you will start to find various excuses for yourself and delay things. As a result, when others urge you, you start to enter the next overtime cycle and rush around. However, you never realize that this cycle of busy state will only make you fall into the illusion of high efficiency. Your work has not become excellent, but full of loopholes because of tension and busy. What can really get you out of the negative cycle of work is not the poverty of working overtime, but knowing how to plan well, improve your ability and identify priorities. People's thinking is hierarchical. Your current problems often need to be solved at a higher level of thinking. two A person's cognitive system is very complex. There may be all kinds of sounds, thoughts and judgments in our brain, and thousands of external information are constantly pouring into our brain, so sometimes we will make up our mind to make some choices and actions, but before long, we will give up halfway because of inner disorder and spiritual entropy increase. Most people are easy to fall into the bottleneck of thinking. They are not sure whether their efforts are effective or whether their changes can be sustained. As for the choice between short-term interests and long-term considerations, there is no choice. The whole state is confusion, entanglement and confusion. Therefore, the current problems naturally become a fog and can not see the key. As shown in the following figure, when we think from the complexity level to the logic level, we still have the following levels:

1. Values Values are actually a set of belief puzzles in our hearts, which will imperceptibly affect the way we look at things around us and behave. Our thinking at this thinking level is often: -Why do (or don't) it? -Is it important or not? -What should this have been?

2. Capability level At the ability level, it is related to the choices that a person can have in reality. Each choice is a kind of ability, so the more choices, the greater the ability. For example, if you have strong English listening, speaking, reading and writing skills, you can choose to be an English teacher or simultaneous interpretation.

3. Operational level At the operational level, it refers to "what to do?", "Did you do it?", That is, the selection and actual exertion of ability refers to how we use our ability to do things.

4. Environmental dimension Environmental thinking includes the perception of all conditions outside the body, such as people, things, things, places, money and so on. In the level of thinking, the thinking of each level will have an impact on the lower level of thinking, while the changes in higher-level thinking will be passed down, resulting in corresponding changes at lower levels. The lower the level of the problem, the easier it is to solve. Most of the problems in daily life are at the level of environment and behavior. When the problems are at the level of beliefs and values, it is more difficult to solve them. Generally speaking, a low-level problem is easy to find a solution at a higher level. Conversely, a high-level problem is difficult to be effective with a low-level solution. Just like some people who live in distress, most of the time they just think from the outside and action level, thinking that the overall environment is bad and personal efforts are not enough, but such thinking can not really solve a person's poverty dilemma. However, if we use the level of thinking logic to deduce, we can often find a more essential reason. First of all, from the perspective of the environment, there are still many people around him who live a rich life, and the current Internet society makes the connection and communication between them more efficient. The current environment is a better environment for getting rich in history. From the perspective of behavior, he is very poor at present. He is greedy for small and cheap things. He only knows how to ask for but does not know how to give. He is even willing to sacrifice his precious time for money saving. Then from the perspective of ability, he has no specialized skills, can't find a better job, has no leadership, has affinity and cooperates well with others. In this regard, his beliefs at the value level are often: The supply of financial resources is limited. I compete with others. When I spend money, I have less money. I must reduce my expenditure in order to have more wealth. After a simple deduction, we will find that the thinking mode of the upper layer directly affects the thinking mode of the lower layer. When he straightens out these levels of thinking and redefines the thinking mode from high level to low level, it is possible to really change the current situation. At this time, he can redefine his belief from the perspective of values - as long as we have high-value ability resources, we can exchange enough money. Based on this belief, he will no longer focus on money, but on the strategy of future development, improve his ability value, let his high value attract money to himself, and his follow-up actions will become open, know how to build a win-win relationship with others, be willing to invest in himself, and his environment will become more conducive to his personal development, So that life can enter a positive cycle. Change at a higher level of thinking will often solve problems from the root and produce qualitative changes. three As for improving the level of thinking, it is very important to take the dimension of time into account. Most of the time, we tend to overestimate short-term returns and underestimate long-term value. But if you add the dimension of time, most things are easy to become clear. In the rules of the game of Wall Street in the United States, a company must be bright enough in its quarterly financial report to win the favor of capital, because they focus on short-term profits. However, Amazon did not think so, but chose to sacrifice short-term profits to gain growth with long-term thinking. In the concept of Amazon CEO Bezos—— All projects that can only generate short-term profits are not important, no matter how much money they make now! Projects that generate long-term cash flow are the most important, no matter how much money they lose now. In his opinion, if you focus on the next three years in everything you do, there will be many people competing with you; But if you can focus on the next seven years, there are few companies that can compete with you, because few companies are willing to make such long-term plans. Now, Amazon has overturned the bookstore and defeated Barnes and noble, the largest bookstore in the United States; It also overturned the supermarket, whose market value exceeded the total market value of the top 10 retail stores in the United States; It even subverted the computing power market. As an e-commerce, it actually entered the cloud computing industry. Now, the market value of world-famous traditional computing giants such as oracel, IBM, HP, Dell and so on is not as good as Amazon. Bezos himself surpassed Buffett in March 2017 and became the second richest man in the world; On October 28, 2017, his value soared to nearly $100 billion, becoming the world's richest man. In fact, a person's cognition of time often determines the height of dimension upgrading thinking. Previously, a classmate sent a circle of friends saying that when Xiaomi company recruited core members of start-ups, he didn't choose Xiaomi, but went to Microsoft. Now Xiaomi is about to go public. He regrets missing the opportunity of wealth and freedom. In fact, this choice often only sees the short-term profits in front of us and ignores the dimension upgrading thinking in the dimension of time. If he can see the long-term development of a company from the span of 10 years, he can often make better choices. Considering different choices over a longer period of time, many small profits in front of us are not worth mentioning. Instead, the focus is more on whether the company has high growth, whether it can bring opportunities for class transition and financial freedom. If you are ready to invest in financial management, you might as well consider it from a longer cycle, so as to obtain a stable compound interest effect; If you are ready to learn and grow, you might as well set a long-term goal and give yourself the motivation to practice step by step; If you encounter difficulties in your work, you might as well think about it from a longer-term career planning and give yourself a clear development direction. When thinking is structured on time, our thinking perspective is raised to a new height. four From the low-level thinking mode to explore the high-level thinking mode layer by layer, such a dimension upgrading process can often find out the key of the problem; At the same time, thinking in combination with the time dimension will make us more clear about the future evolution direction of things and our choices. When we are in a higher dimension, we have the ability of "dimensionality reduction attack". It allows us to jump out of the current dilemma and look at the world in a new way, and the original problems will be solved. It's like playing a game. You can't beat the enemy or the monster. You're very depressed. What should you do? At this time, you need to upgrade your equipment and add various skill attributes, so as to improve your combat effectiveness. Compare your opponents with poor equipment and lower combat effectiveness to carry out dimension reduction attacks and win. In fact, by raising the level of thinking, you have a new understanding of the current situation, you have a higher vision and see the truth of the facts, so as to change the current situation, which is a matter of course and follow the trend. Life is a long journey. Sometimes we encounter a thick fog and don't know where to go. At this time, if we try to climb a high ground and compare with the belief map in our hand, we can often identify the direction of the journey, and then continue to summon up courage and go on with patience. If you find that you always encounter the same problems again and again, you need to improve your thinking level and use "dimension raising thinking" to "dimension reduction attack", so as to solve the broken situation in life.

Sometimes, we have worked hard enough, but we still can't see the signs of life change. Our hearts are like falling into a maze, confused and anxious. Einstein once said that problems at this level are difficult to solve by thinking at this level. If this level of thinking fails, how can we find a way out? one In real life, we often fall into a strange circle of unsolvable life. You are very poor, and then tighten your clothes and food, but you still can't make ends meet; You are fat, and then go on a diet, but you still have a big belly; You are very busy, and then work overtime every day. As a result, the work effect is still not high. You will be very helpless to find that the changes you try to make do not get the expected results. This is like a donkey grinding. Because it is blindfolded, it keeps pulling the grinding circle by circle. It feels that it has been moving forward, making progress and growing, but in fact, it has been spinning in place. Let's do a simple experiment. Cast a beam of light on the wall to form a bright area. Then, put your hand in front of the light source, and the shadow of your palm will appear on the bright wall. At this time, if you want to change the shape of the shadow on the wall, can you make any changes to the shadow directly on the plane of the wall? Obviously, you can't do it. We can only go back to you in the three-dimensional world and change the posture of your palm, so as to really change the shape of the shadow. The shadow on the wall is in a two-dimensional plane, while in reality, your hand is in a three-dimensional world. The shadow is only the projection of the three-dimensional hand on the two-dimensional plane. If you want to change the image of the two-dimensional plane, you have to rise to a higher level and reach the three-dimensional to make the change. This is actually a process of upgrading and solving problems. You are very poor, ask yourself to buy less clothes and spend less. If you can walk, you will never take the car. If you have friends, you will never take the initiative to pay the bill. You will be complacent that you have saved a few yuan for the car. You will feel that you can really live, and you will feel smart because you are greedy for other people's cheap. However, you never realize that your current life is filled with too many trivial things, and your heart is occupied by all kinds of trivial calculations. On the contrary, you have less and less time to control, and your friends are gradually alienated. In fact, your poverty is a kind of mental poverty. The thinking bandwidth is too narrow and self-control is scarce. What can really make you rich is to get rid of your "poor mentality" and know how to plan for life in the long run. You are very fat and ask yourself to go on a painful diet every day, but you always inadvertently choose to eat in a hot pot shop one day after some entanglement and hesitation. As a result, when you get home, you weigh yourself and go back. At this time, you will swear to yourself that you must shut up next time. However, you never realize that dieting to lose weight will only make your subconscious reduce your metabolic rate, which will reduce your consumption, but is not conducive to fat loss. What can really help you lose weight is not to control your mouth, but to accelerate your metabolic rate with the help of the regularity of diet and exercise. You are very busy. You deal with all kinds of meetings and reports every day. In order to catch up with the progress, you work overtime. However, after working overtime for several consecutive days, you start to fall into a state that needs rest and adjustment. At this time, you will start to find various excuses for yourself and delay things. As a result, when others urge you, you start to enter the next overtime cycle and rush around. However, you never realize that this cycle of busy state will only make you fall into the illusion of high efficiency. Your work has not become excellent, but full of loopholes because of tension and busy. What can really get you out of the negative cycle of work is not the poverty of working overtime, but knowing how to plan well, improve your ability and identify priorities. People's thinking is hierarchical. Your current problems often need to be solved at a higher level of thinking. two A person's cognitive system is very complex. There may be all kinds of sounds, thoughts and judgments in our brain, and thousands of external information are constantly pouring into our brain, so sometimes we will make up our mind to make some choices and actions, but before long, we will give up halfway because of inner disorder and spiritual entropy increase. Most people are easy to fall into the bottleneck of thinking. They are not sure whether their efforts are effective or whether their changes can be sustained. As for the choice between short-term interests and long-term considerations, there is no choice. The whole state is confusion, entanglement and confusion. Therefore, the current problems naturally become a fog and can not see the key. As shown in the following figure, when we think from the complexity level to the logic level, we still have the following levels:

1. Values Values are actually a set of belief puzzles in our hearts, which will imperceptibly affect the way we look at things around us and behave. Our thinking at this thinking level is often: -Why do (or don't) it? -Is it important or not? -What should this have been?

2. Capability level At the ability level, it is related to the choices that a person can have in reality. Each choice is a kind of ability, so the more choices, the greater the ability. For example, if you have strong English listening, speaking, reading and writing skills, you can choose to be an English teacher or simultaneous interpretation.

3. Operational level At the operational level, it refers to "what to do?", "Did you do it?", That is, the selection and actual exertion of ability refers to how we use our ability to do things.

4. Environmental dimension Environmental thinking includes the perception of all conditions outside the body, such as people, things, things, places, money and so on. In the level of thinking, the thinking of each level will have an impact on the lower level of thinking, while the changes in higher-level thinking will be passed down, resulting in corresponding changes at lower levels. The lower the level of the problem, the easier it is to solve. Most of the problems in daily life are at the level of environment and behavior. When the problems are at the level of beliefs and values, it is more difficult to solve them. Generally speaking, a low-level problem is easy to find a solution at a higher level. Conversely, a high-level problem is difficult to be effective with a low-level solution. Just like some people who live in distress, most of the time they just think from the outside and action level, thinking that the overall environment is bad and personal efforts are not enough, but such thinking can not really solve a person's poverty dilemma. However, if we use the level of thinking logic to deduce, we can often find a more essential reason. First of all, from the perspective of the environment, there are still many people around him who live a rich life, and the current Internet society makes the connection and communication between them more efficient. The current environment is a better environment for getting rich in history. From the perspective of behavior, he is very poor at present. He is greedy for small and cheap things. He only knows how to ask for but does not know how to give. He is even willing to sacrifice his precious time for money saving. Then from the perspective of ability, he has no specialized skills, can't find a better job, has no leadership, has affinity and cooperates well with others. In this regard, his beliefs at the value level are often: The supply of financial resources is limited. I compete with others. When I spend money, I have less money. I must reduce my expenditure in order to have more wealth. After a simple deduction, we will find that the thinking mode of the upper layer directly affects the thinking mode of the lower layer. When he straightens out these levels of thinking and redefines the thinking mode from high level to low level, it is possible to really change the current situation. At this time, he can redefine his belief from the perspective of values - as long as we have high-value ability resources, we can exchange enough money. Based on this belief, he will no longer focus on money, but on the strategy of future development, improve his ability value, let his high value attract money to himself, and his follow-up actions will become open, know how to build a win-win relationship with others, be willing to invest in himself, and his environment will become more conducive to his personal development, So that life can enter a positive cycle. Change at a higher level of thinking will often solve problems from the root and produce qualitative changes. three As for improving the level of thinking, it is very important to take the dimension of time into account. Most of the time, we tend to overestimate short-term returns and underestimate long-term value. But if you add the dimension of time, most things are easy to become clear. In the rules of the game of Wall Street in the United States, a company must be bright enough in its quarterly financial report to win the favor of capital, because they focus on short-term profits. However, Amazon did not think so, but chose to sacrifice short-term profits to gain growth with long-term thinking. In the concept of Amazon CEO Bezos—— All projects that can only generate short-term profits are not important, no matter how much money they make now! Projects that generate long-term cash flow are the most important, no matter how much money they lose now. In his opinion, if you focus on the next three years in everything you do, there will be many people competing with you; But if you can focus on the next seven years, there are few companies that can compete with you, because few companies are willing to make such long-term plans. Now, Amazon has overturned the bookstore and defeated Barnes and noble, the largest bookstore in the United States; It also overturned the supermarket, whose market value exceeded the total market value of the top 10 retail stores in the United States; It even subverted the computing power market. As an e-commerce, it actually entered the cloud computing industry. Now, the market value of world-famous traditional computing giants such as oracel, IBM, HP, Dell and so on is not as good as Amazon. Bezos himself surpassed Buffett in March 2017 and became the second richest man in the world; On October 28, 2017, his value soared to nearly $100 billion, becoming the world's richest man. In fact, a person's cognition of time often determines the height of dimension upgrading thinking. Previously, a classmate sent a circle of friends saying that when Xiaomi company recruited core members of start-ups, he didn't choose Xiaomi, but went to Microsoft. Now Xiaomi is about to go public. He regrets missing the opportunity of wealth and freedom. In fact, this choice often only sees the short-term profits in front of us and ignores the dimension upgrading thinking in the dimension of time. If he can see the long-term development of a company from the span of 10 years, he can often make better choices. Considering different choices over a longer period of time, many small profits in front of us are not worth mentioning. Instead, the focus is more on whether the company has high growth, whether it can bring opportunities for class transition and financial freedom. If you are ready to invest in financial management, you might as well consider it from a longer cycle, so as to obtain a stable compound interest effect; If you are ready to learn and grow, you might as well set a long-term goal and give yourself the motivation to practice step by step; If you encounter difficulties in your work, you might as well think about it from a longer-term career planning and give yourself a clear development direction. When thinking is structured on time, our thinking perspective is raised to a new height. four From the low-level thinking mode to explore the high-level thinking mode layer by layer, such a dimension upgrading process can often find out the key of the problem; At the same time, thinking in combination with the time dimension will make us more clear about the future evolution direction of things and our choices. When we are in a higher dimension, we have the ability of "dimensionality reduction attack". It allows us to jump out of the current dilemma and look at the world in a new way, and the original problems will be solved. It's like playing a game. You can't beat the enemy or the monster. You're very depressed. What should you do? At this time, you need to upgrade your equipment and add various skill attributes, so as to improve your combat effectiveness. Compare your opponents with poor equipment and lower combat effectiveness to carry out dimension reduction attacks and win. In fact, by raising the level of thinking, you have a new understanding of the current situation, you have a higher vision and see the truth of the facts, so as to change the current situation, which is a matter of course and follow the trend. Life is a long journey. Sometimes we encounter a thick fog and don't know where to go. At this time, if we try to climb a high ground and compare with the belief map in our hand, we can often identify the direction of the journey, and then continue to summon up courage and go on with patience. If you find that you always encounter the same problems again and again, you need to improve your thinking level and use "dimension raising thinking" to "dimension reduction attack", so as to solve the broken situation in life.